#sjws in religion

[personal-blog243]

I think I am beginning to understand a major philosophical misunderstanding that a lot of conservative Christians have about people in the left.

In my observation there are some conservative Christians out there who believe that deconstructing certain beliefs or having a worldview that is not conservative is antithetical to the concept of “truth” itself. They stereotype people with other beliefs (especially leftist beliefs) as people who just believe whatever they feel like and truth doesn’t matter or even exist, so of course that supposed worldview doesn’t make sense to a conservative Christian.

I don’t know jack shit about “postmodernism”, but this seems to be what a lot conservatives think postmodernism is, and they seem to associate this philosophy with “leftism” 🤷🏼‍♀️ for some reason.

I don’t know if any of that makes sense, and I’m sure some conservatives are just willfully ignorant and like to “straw man” leftists by making them seem stupid, but there MUST be some way we can fight this narrative.

We NEED to get conservative Christians to understand that being against war, authoritarianism, poverty, prejudice, and environmental and public health destruction doesn’t make someone a weird, stupid person who doesn’t believe in the concept of absolute truth.

IDK what about fighting for justice and freedom for oppressed people looks like “not believing in truth” to them but what do I know? 🤷🏼‍♀️

All I know is that identifying as a more progressive type of Christian instead of a conservative one doesn’t necessarily make one’s theology “weak” or incompatible with truth. At what point are you just worshipping the concept of “truth” itself?

[kingsragesqueal]

i'm honestly surprised at this point that right wing conservatives don't look at Exodus or movies about Exodus like The Prince of Egypt and call it Woke Communist Propaganda™ or s/t equally obtuse

[cornfieldofbabylon]

“Me myself, as a Christian, what I see this as is entirely spiritual warfare,” Gaines said to a crowd of over 1,000 people Sunday. “This really is no longer right versus wrong or good versus bad. This is moral versus evil.”

[wisdomfish]

The Communist Month of June

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

~ “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen

[charcutieri]

Those who think misgendering someone is "taking away their human rights" are always the most privileged people on the planet

[stelashe]

Tumblr: I'm woke no bigots here

Also tumblr: boys Vs girls black people Vs yties the gays Vs cishets wooooo segregation is cool and so is racism and ableism and sexism if it's about the MaJoRiTy in the west! !!kys!! Die! Idc what u say ur inferior ur not even human! !!1 no nazi here

[regentzephyr]

theology is still an important thing to study precisely because it teaches us a lot about the religion known as atheism lmao

[williamjokela]

Venting

now don't get me wrong i'm not attacking anyone on here or there viewpoint in politics or religion i’m not trying to anything like that at all and i'm not trying to get political either in this post at all.

sad to say that everything must be political now with some people that are yelling the mouse about it and it’s very annoying it hearing every single time on the news and you have to think a certain way now with some people can we all just agree and disagree on some things and move on with our lives like a fucking human being should be doing but no certain individuals want to go around harassing everyone about it and then destroying someone lives for disagreeing with them for having a different viewpoint on the thing they're what they're talking about.

can we all shut up and just agree and disagree on things and move on please i'm tired of this i'm tired of hearing it i'm tired of how someone should just think like them at al times we don’t need children to get involved in that bullshit.

[theboyonthehighcastle]

FUCKING WOKE PEOPLE. THEY DON'T LOVE AT ALL.

[lily-orchard-archives]

September 26, 2016

[magz]

Edit: Stop send ask and tag say he native, magz have already respond here (post link) - Isaiah Merkin self-refer himself and consider himself white.

Edit 2: censoring screenshots more.

Edit 3: Turned off reblogs, but y'all can link to post.

The youtuber W*ndig*on, the youtuber, said that he was the originator of the term “boogaloo boys”. (original thread)

Which is also primarily known as the nazi alt-right extremist militia hate group movement.

He claims they strayed from his ideals by being “anywhere from antifa to fascist” instead of just about “freedom”.

He says he renamed himself from boogalooboi to his current username to rebrand.

That he is what the boogaloobois model themselves after, presumably as his fans.

So it’s not that he coincidentally looks and acts with fascist dogwhistles, it’s that according to him, the fascists model themselves after him.

And still for whatever reason, he keeps wearing and saying things the Boogaloo boys are known for after supposedly renouncing them. The hawaiian shirts, the gun collection and fanaticism, military fatigues, the fixation with “freedom”, using “boogaloo” to mean ‘revolution’, etc.

He is a white devout christian man that makes those long conspiracy theory iceberg videos, as he considers conspiracy theories to be fun and interesting, but barely if ever addresses the antisemitism of most of those conspiracies.

And named himself and his Youtube channel after the taboo winter hunger spirit of the Algonquian native peoples. It is a part of a closed-off religion where you aren’t supposed to mention the spirit by name or it will notice or manifest.

It also conceptually symbolizes the imperialism and colonialism and greed - “the consuming forms of exclusion and assimilation” - that affected the Algonquian peoples. The further cultural appropriation and misrepresentation of the taboo spirit into a quirky cryptid and using it for branding and merchandise is inappropriate. (forum thread with article links about the taboo spirit)

He has also said stereotypically transmisogynistic things just because it was about Chris Chan.

He was inspired by shoe0nhead, an “anti-sjw” youtuber that claims to be a “leftist populist”, but is an anti-feminist that believes in 9/11 conspiracies, and he regularly interacts with her.

Image shown: His tweet, “step on me @/shoe0nhead”. End of Image. (Tweet Here)

And is a Kyle Rittenhouse fan. Someone who killed three people at a black lives matter protest and is affiliated and supported by the proud boys - a white supremacist neo-fascist group. He follows his official Twitter and agrees with tweets defending Kyle. (reddit threads on his official subreddit, on the subject of him following all kinds of people and his community’s political stances, like him being anti-vaxx and following alt-right people)

Images shown: First is the Official Twitter account of Kyle Rittenhouse, followed by his twitter account.

Second image is his tweet saying “The moment it was announced not guilty on all counts”, with a 42 second video showing Kyle Rittenhouse scared then relieved when the court said he wasn’t guilty and believed his self-defense claim. (Tweet here)

End of Image.

Do with this information what you will, but he does not have good politics.

[whereserpentswalk]

You have a computer that can access the internet of any dimension. You don't have the ability to physically go places, just to observe them and interact with them through this one machine.

Sometimes you'll just do it for fun. Seeing other timeline's versions of sites and the content that's created there. Getting to see work from artists if they hadn't sold out or moved on. Or getting to see what YouTube is like in a world where it never become corpratized. Or get to go on Vine in a world where vine exists in 2024. You've read writing from Shakespeare if he had been sent to the new world, seen stories from Lovecraft if he had unlearned his bigotry, seen experimental films from George Lucas if star wars had floppe, heard music from Kurt Cobain if he hadn't died young.

And you've gone off to weirder places to. You've seen what political discourse is like in a world where Constantine converted to Buddhism instead of chrsitianity, where that's the dominant religion of the west. And you'll see conservatives talking about how sjws are undermining the west's Buddhist values, or YouTube videos talking about chrsitantiy as this forgotten dead religion from the crisis if the third century. And you asked someone in the comments of that video what they thought a world would be like if chrsitanity survived, and they said it was impossible, that it was doomed to die out just because it did.

And you've talked to people from a world where humanity lives underground, where an apocalypse made the surface of the world uninhabitable, and every human on earth lives in massive subterranean complexes. You talked to them about what they wanted, if they wanted to see the sun, see the forests and the birds and the creatures that they knew were above them, and most of them didn't really want it. Most of them didn't really want to see the surface, they had grown up having never seen it, it didn't bother them, they were confused why anyone would be that committed to finally go somewhere that humans weren't. And there was one person who told you they did always really want to see it, that it's their hyperfixation, but that they'd obviously go back with the other humans if they had the chance, that they couldn't live somewhere without them.

And you've seen a world where humans where dead, where only robots and ai and cyborgs were still around. And even though they couldn't touch you, you were afraid, because you thought they would hate you. But they didn't, on every site where they talked about humans they talked about how cool you were, and how much aprication they had for their culture. And when you made a post asking if they'd want to hurt humans if they saw them, everyone who replied called you weird.

You've seen the internet in a world where cryptids and monsters are real. And you ended up on a forum for vampires. And you asked a newly turned vampire how they felt, and they said it was cold, that their body felt so cold, but it was still their body, and that they still wanted to live, still wanted to find a way to enjoy their life even if they didn't like their body.

And you've seen a world where all humans are completely aroace, and don't desire sex or romance at all. And you decided to upload sexual and romantic art, and even fetish art, to one of their sites. And the people there loved it, despite not understanding its purpose, they loved the way the artist depicted the world, saw it as so unique and strange, as something weirdly beautiful, and not at all gross, because nobody ever told them such things were gross.

And you've made online freinds from other worlds. People who you can never touch, never see, but who you see through their words. You've comforted someone who doesn't exist in your world, from a country that doesn't exist in your world, but you've comforted them, and made sure they don't get hurt or hurt themself, from very far away, because despite everything you can't help but care.

Mabye the internet isn't that bad. Mabye the world isn't all horrible. Mabye people aren't that bad.

[zynart]

posts & essays

· there are things we owe to each other (and calling selfishness “self-care” is a bullshit excuse)

· humanity is worth loving, humans are worth saving

· “book lovers” don’t love anything about books and it shows (or, defending classic novels) (or, call me anti-booktok anti-booktwt)

· ok, fine, my social justice politics feel a bit like religion sometimes and that’s ok

· i trained a neural net on 10,000 irony-poisoned tweets and it just gave me cringe?

· what makes someone good, bad, cancelled, or redeemed? i don’t know either!

· there’s no grand unified theory of morality that can tell me why i should forgive my mother. but i do

· please tell me if you have a definitive answer on what makes someone a bad person

· what makes it all worth it for you? (or: florence welch was right)

· stop complaining about SJWs and try a little empathy

· we spent months locked down, how do we still have no sympathy for the incarcerated?

· how do i explain that determinism makes me so unhappy?

· i just want to become someone who can find something that gives me peace

· the picture of aubrey dorian grayham

· virtual night out: pov choose-your-own-adventure night out in cities around the world

· after the deluge (short story) (dispatch from an island state post climate apocalypse)

· a poem about kissing in adelaide, set to "kisses" by slowdive

[max1461]

To my knowledge, neither "the majority of atheists are right-wing" nor "the majority of New Atheists ended up becoming right-wing" are true. I think these statements came about by exaggeration and discourse telephone from an initial observation that a number of the most prominent atheist/skeptic YouTubers (among them TJ Kirk and Thunderf00t) took a noticeably right-wing/"anti-SJW" turn around the time of GamerGate.

Anyway, I've seen a few people on here dismiss the New Atheism/Alt-Right connection as entirely a product of the imagination of pro-religion discourses, trying to disparage atheism for a left-wing audience by linking it to the right. Obviously there was some of this, but people claiming this is the whole story are just incorrect. There really was a stark and sudden right-wing turn in YouTube skepticism around 2012 or so, I was there and remember it clearly. You can go back and check, the videos are all still up. This is the climate on the platform that early "breadtubers" like ContraPoints and Hbomberguy were explicitly reacting to.

Obviously this isn't a point against atheism or skepticism. I am an atheist and a skeptic.

I'm just pointing this out because I have seen what I basically think are attempts to revise the received narrative by parties who were not actually there, and although the received narrative (something like "New Atheism became the Alt-Right" or "New Atheism became subsumed into the Alt-Right") is in fact wrong, the revisionists are also plainly incorrect about a bunch of stuff.

I think this is related to the whole "I don't do video, I only do text" sentiment on here. You guys don't know what was going on with video cause you're hardcore textheads. That's fine, but most people aren't, and the stuff that was happening with video was a big deal. You've gotta account for that.

[psiotechniqa]

magical

we all knew it!!